Mike Dunham-wilkie
Senior Data Architect, Data Equity Services
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMike Dunham-wilkie is a Senior Data Architect based in Victoria, BC, with a deep 45-year foundation in software development and over a decade of focused work in public-sector data architecture and governance. He specializes in designing and tuning spatial and non-spatial databases, automating ETL validation, and creating novel architectures to improve dataset analysis and accessibility for government data catalogues. A long-time Unicode evangelist, he provides technical leadership on the correct handling of Indigenous language text—an often-overlooked but critical aspect of equitable data systems. His background includes patented work on multi-dimensional data storage and practical experience across Oracle, PL/SQL, Python and Safe Software FME, combining rigorous engineering with strong documentation and metadata stewardship.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Honours), Mathematics and Computer Science, BSc (Honours), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of VictoriaMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (34)
geographic10
biodiversity10
documentation8
ckan8
warehouse7
unicode7
ckan-extension7
spatial7
internet-explorer6
google-maps-api6
gis6
overlay6
java6
openstreetmap6
code-signing6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bcgov/inclusive-names-service
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Repository of code and other information useful to software developers and system managers wishing to make systems capable of storing Unicode names of people, places, and businesses
Contributions:5 reviews, 6 PRs, 89 pushes in 2 years 2 months
managersstoringlinuxbusinessesunicode
mdunhamwilkie/data_modeler_test
Jan 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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